Due to their clear structure and organisation, insolvency
proceedings are ideally suited for digitalisation processes. It is
therefore more than surprising that despite Austria's
pioneering role in the digitalisation of the justice system with
its Justice 3.0 project, there has been no significant development
in the expansion of digitalisation in insolvency proceedings since
the early 2000s. The situation is different in Croatia, however,
where the new Insolvency Act came into force in 2015 and was used
as an opportunity to open the path towards digitisation. But what
is Croatia doing differently and what can Austria learn from
it?
When the new Insolvency Act came into force in Croatia, the
first thing that changed was the method of publication. Instead of
the previous provisions on informing parties and the general public
of the insolvency proceedings via the Official Gazette of the
Republic of Croatia, an e-Bulletin board was introduced into
Croatian insolvency
